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J Simpson

@forestpunk.bsky.social

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J Simpson is a prolific academic writer, journalist, creative and critic, specializing in "dark," experimental, and avant-garde art, idealistically believing that good art makes the world a better place. https://linktr.ee/for3stpunk

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J Simpson @forestpunk.bsky.social · 20h

#Music #MusicSky #MusicChallenge

Posting an album cover of an album i've been obsessed with every day for a year.

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J Simpson @forestpunk.bsky.social · 20h

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Album of the Day 288

Can Bardd - Devoured by the Oak

Autumn Albums No. 19🍁

Blazing pagan black metal. Like fog and charcoal smoke winding through a canopy of gold and flames.

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#albumoftheday #musicsky #blackmetal

Devoured by the Oak

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J Simpson @forestpunk.bsky.social · 1d

#Music #MusicSky #MusicChallenge

Posting an album cover of an album i've been obsessed with every day for a year.

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J Simpson @forestpunk.bsky.social · 1d

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Album of the Day 287

John Coltrane - John Coltrane & Johnny Hartmann

Autumn Albums No. 18🍁

As much as i appreciate Coltrane in furious sheets of sonic attack mode, i think i'll always prefer his ballads the best.

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#albumoftheday #musicsky #jazzsky

John Coltrane And Johnny Hartman

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J Simpson @forestpunk.bsky.social · 2d

#100horrormoviesin92days #horrorsky #moviesky #filmsky #moviechallenge #filmchallenge

70. The Mini-Munsters

J Simpson @forestpunk.bsky.social · 2d

Am i being flirted with by a psychotic rat?

J Simpson @forestpunk.bsky.social · 2d

Some people have never seen 1992's Toys, starring Robin Williams and Joan Cussack, and it shows.

J Simpson @forestpunk.bsky.social · 2d

I have hopes to properly support this thesis at some point, but i'm pretty convinced that the 2010s were the most Gothic decade since the '80s, which i find so curious from a time so obsessed with glamour, hedonism, brightness, cleanliness and seeming optimism.

J Simpson @forestpunk.bsky.social · 2d

Heathcliff, it's me, i'm Kathy. i've come home now.

J Simpson @forestpunk.bsky.social · 2d

#Music #MusicSky #MusicChallenge

Posting an album cover of an album i've been obsessed with every day for a year.

112/365

J Simpson @forestpunk.bsky.social · 2d

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Album of the Day 286

R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction

Autumn Albums No. 17🍁

R.E.M.'s murkiest record. Like through the mud beside train tracks in search of smoke and gold.

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#albumoftheday #musicsky #80smusic

Fables Of The Reconstruction

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J Simpson @forestpunk.bsky.social · 2d

one of my favorites.

J Simpson @forestpunk.bsky.social · 3d

Kelly Fremon Craig's track record is impeccable.

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The Ineffable Horror of Joe Muggs @joemuggs.bsky.social · 5d

I dug into the Wierd Eighties for @thequietus.com

Compilation of the Week: The Sheer Action Of Fini Tribe – 1982-1987 | The Quietus

Joe Muggs looks back beyond rigid gatekeeping to the mad flux of the 1980s and the Scottish band who were outsider art and proto-rave

J Simpson @forestpunk.bsky.social · 3d

Watching The Edge of Seventeen and realizing that a lot of the popular people were probably a lot nicer than the edgy people i hung out with due to being constantly mistreated.

J Simpson @forestpunk.bsky.social · 3d

How on earth did Jojo Rabbit even get made?

J Simpson @forestpunk.bsky.social · 4d

#Music #MusicSky #MusicChallenge

Posting an album cover of an album i've been obsessed with every day for a year.

111/365

J Simpson @forestpunk.bsky.social · 4d

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Album of the Day 285

Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

Autumn Albums No. 16🍁

i'd rather be a forest than a street. yes, i would.

So many great songs on this one! One of the all-time great baroque pop albums.

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#albumoftheday #musicsky #baroquepop

Bridge Over Troubled Water

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J Simpson @forestpunk.bsky.social · 4d

#100horrormoviesin92days #horrorsky #moviesky #filmsky #moviechallenge #filmchallenge

69. The Devil & Daniel Mouse

J Simpson @forestpunk.bsky.social · 4d

#100horrormoviesin92days #horrorsky #moviesky #filmsky #moviechallenge #filmchallenge

68. The Conjuring: Last Rites

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 5d

John Carpenter's The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

It’s Alive! Barker @kellylink.bsky.social · 5d

John Carpenter’s Lawrence of Arabia

Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 5d

John Carpenter's John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars

J Simpson @forestpunk.bsky.social · 5d

#Music #MusicSky #MusicChallenge

Posting an album cover of an album i've been obsessed with every day for a year.

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J Simpson @forestpunk.bsky.social · 5d

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Album of the Day 284

Neil Young - After the Gold Rush

Autumn Albums No. 15🍁

Only love can break your heart.

Ornate, lovely, gilded, warm, heartbroken. Music for golden leaves going crisp 'round the edges.

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#albumoftheday #musicsky #classicalbums

After the Gold Rush (2009 Remaster)

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J Simpson @forestpunk.bsky.social · 6d

#100horrormoviesin92days #horrorsky #moviesky #filmsky #moviechallenge #filmchallenge

67. The Sentinel

J Simpson @forestpunk.bsky.social · 6d

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Album of the Day 283

Pat Metheny - As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls

Autumn Albums No. 14🍁

Somehow manages to sound both warm and cold, simultaneously. Like standing next to a bonfire on a chilly night.

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#albumoftheday #musicsky #jazzsky

As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls

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